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Beyond the touchline there is nothing.
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There is nothing outside the text
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A determination or an effect within a system which is no longer that of a presence but of a diffrance, a system…
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Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to accept, an absolute mortality - without positive outcome,or resurrection,…
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Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death.
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The only attitude (the only politics--judicial, medical, pedagogical and so forth) I would absolutely condemn is one which, directly or indirectly, cuts…
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That is what deconstruction is made of: not the mixture but the tension between memory, fidelity, the preservation of something that has…
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The trace I leave to me means at once my death, to come or already come, and the hope that it will…
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I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the…
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I do not believe in pure idioms. I think there is naturally a desire, for whoever speaks or writes, to sign in…
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I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also…
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I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous.
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In the Spanish people there is a mixture of Gothic, Frankish and Moorish blood. One can speak of the Spaniard as one…
— Adolf Hitler
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But oh! the blessing it is to have a friend to whom one can speak fearlessly on any subject; with whom one's…
— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
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Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.
— Edward Abbey
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No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life…
— Clifford D. Simak
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Even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with…
— Pope Francis
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He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only…
— Olympia Brown
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In vain do they talk of happiness who never subdued an impulse in obedience to a principle. He who never sacrificed a…
— Horace Mann
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One can speak poetry just by arranging colors well, just as one can say comforting things in music.
— Vincent Van Gogh
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With few words, one can speak the truth.
— Bryan Adams
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We are given over to absolute solitude. No one can speak with us and no one can speak for us; we must…
— Jacques Derrida
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For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something, just as the…
— Samuel Beckett
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